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Mat_14:26 ff. Ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης (see critical notes): upon the sea. There, just at that spot, they saw Him walking as He was coming toward them over the sea (Mat_14:25). Observe the appropriate change of cases. For genitive, comp. Job_9:8. περιπατῶν … ἐπὶ θαλάσσης , Lucian, Philops. xiii. ἐφʼ ὕδατος βαδίζοντα , 14 :hist. ii. 4, al.
φάντασμα ] They shared (Luk_24:37) the popular belief in apparitions (Plat. Phaed. p. 81 D: ψυχῶν σκιοειδῆ φαντάσματα ; Eur. Hec. 54; Lucian, Philops. 29; Wis_17:15). Comp. the nocturnos Lemures in Horace, Ep. ii. 2. 209.
Mat_14:27. ἐλάλ . αὐτ .] ἀπὸ τῆς φωνῆς δῆλον ἑαυτὸν ποιεῖ , Chrysostom.
Mat_14:28-31 are not found in any of the other Gospels, but their contents are entirely in keeping with Peter’s temperament ( ὁ πανταχοῦ θερμὸς κ . ἀεὶ τῶν ἄλλων προπηδῶν , Chrysostom).
βλέπων ] not: as He perceived, but: as He saw; for, when on the sea, He was in immediate contact with the manifestations of the storm.
καταποντίζεσθαι ] “pro modo fidei ferebatur ab aqua” (Bengel); namely, by the influence of Christ’s power, for which influence, however, he became unreceptive through doubt, and accordingly began to sink.